Are you sure you are racing USAC races and not local training crits? At least here they always look for USAC ones. Also yes, at least for 5 you were able to get a day license to race. I think the idea was to encourage people to try.
I guess here there are still tons of races, although participation is declining. I do wonder how this will effect road races. If more points for RRs was an incentive for people to drive longer distances and do harder races.
I think for me although I *****ed sometime how hard it was to get the points in crits, in retrospect it was part of the appeal. Getting from 3 to 2 is suppose to be hard, and was probably close to the right points distribution. It's like when they made points to never expire for a year or two vs expire in 12 months. They went from one extreme to the other, but then changed to 36 month. Which I think is a nice middle.
Last edited by UmneyDurak; 01-29-20 at 08:42 AM.